Eye: Golden yellow, slightly coppery.
Nose: Pleasant, fine with good complexity, lightly wooded. Fruit aromas of apple and banana. Floral hints of rose and jasmine. Develops in complexity when smelling again after swirling.
Mouth: Sweet attack, excellently balanced. Fruity hints of ripe apples. Hints of wood.

Eye: Golden mahogany. Clear and brilliant, bright meniscus, fine legs.
Nose: Intense, complex, with hints of roasted coffee, confit apples and vanilla. The aromas of apples develop gradually to become dominant.
Mouth: Sweet, slight bitterness, intense and round, well built, and fruity. Good concentration.

New! Gold medal - International Wine and Spirit Competition - London 2020
New! Gold medal - World Calvados Awards - 2020

Colour: light golden
Nose: fruity with intense aromas of green apple ending with subtle notes of mint.
Mouth: fresh and fruity, suave and delicate with a linden aftertaste.

Colour: golden amber
Nose: fruity and complex with notes of ripe apple, fresh almond and citrus fruits (orange peel and lime) ending with aromas of quince.
Mouth: soft and round with notes of ripe fruit and quince. Good length in the mouth with a slight bitterness on the almond and the core.

Colour: dark amber
Nose: fruity and spicy with aromas of dried apricot, citrus and nutmeg, then gradually notes of leather
Mouth: nice soft and round attack on notes of cocoa, and wood, to finish on the liquorice. The length in the mouth is persistent and tends to the core.

Silver Medal - International Wine & Spirit Competition - London 2020
Silver Medal - General Agricultural Competition - Paris 2020

It has been selected among the noblest and oldest Calvados of the Château du Breuil cellars. With its very amber colour and its strength in tannins, it brings the pleasure of the roundness of its aromas. A distinguished, graceful and supple Calvados. Hints of spices, honey, cinnamon, dried fruits and with a great and long finish

The carafes are then filled with young Calvados at 70%, which allows the apples to settle down and stabilize. Several weeks later, they are emptied and refilled with Calvados. The apples then macerate gently in the Calvados.
Tasting notes
Eyes: The end result of the Captive Apple is both visually attractive and very agreeable to taste. The colour is amber yellow. Clear and brilliant.
Nose: Gentle attack, great aromatic intensity. Green Apple, geranium, minty.
Mouth: Consistent, slightly bitter, the first taste is all green apples. The finish is vegetal, with a lot of breadths. Present at the back of the nose.

This is an innovative blending specially created by our Cellar Master and inspired by the methods of “double maturing” used by many famous Scottish whiskies. The specificity of this 10 year old and 41% AOC Pays d’Auge Calvados is that it has aged the last 6 years at the Château in small oak casks that have already contained whisky (single malt from the Speyside Valley in Scotland). The result of this double maturation is totally surprising and exceptional: the nose is really different from a “traditional” Calvados. In the mouth, behind the very present taste of fruit (it stays of course a great Calvados), subtle flavours of smoke, sea air and cereals appear. The oak wood impregnated with whisky gives a more aerial aspect and a subtle sea taste to this Château du Breuil Calvados.
This Calvados should please :
– First the whisky lovers, sensitive to the particular “pure” or “single” malts
– But also the lovers of complex Calvados
– All the spirits lovers looking for rare tastes
Colour: amber.
Nose: complex, peaty, vegetal, malted, smoked and toasted.
Mouth: fruity, sea taste, mineral, cereals, smoked with subtle hints of undergrowth. The length in the mouth is smoked.